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What about other recent seasons. The horizontal line is totally arbitrary, just a visual trick. They probably were in parts but it's the average that matters and the BoM tells us that 2016 was only the 4th hottest year for Australia. Were they unusually hot too. The CRU graph . Note that it is calibrated in tenths of a degree Celsius and that even that tiny amount of warming started long before the late 20th century. Pick your statistic: Was recent Australian weather unusually hot. The authors below have picked statistics that appear to show that recent times in Australia were unusually hot. The whole graph would be a horizontal line if it were calibrated in whole degrees -- thus showing ZERO warming. Source: GREENIE WATCH

B2B Salespeople Need to Act More Like Travel Agents

By 2012, our research shows, nearly 60% of a typical B2B purchasing decision — researching solutions, ranking options, benchmarking pricing, and so on — was happening before the buyer even had a conversation with a supplier. Just as with travel, a wealth of easily available information has made it possible for buyers to do much of the work themselves. According to the travel and leisure marketing firm MMGY, the use of travel agents increased by 50% from 2014 to 2015. Why. Because consumers, overwhelmed by information and inundated with choices, are again turning to travel agents to take the work out of travel planning. Consider what’s happened with travel: With the explosion of internet travel sites in the 2000s, consumers took charge of their own travel, and travel agencies hemorrhaged business. Source: HBR.org

Skousen: Trump’s Poor Replacement Choices — “McMaster is a closet globalist who will steer Trump into following the neocon agenda in Syria and Iran. It’s likely that he’ll sabotage Trump’s plan to joi ...

This sends a signal to the opposition that if they can block the nomination of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, they might just get a more liberal alternative. In the aftermath of Mike Flynn’s resignation and the withdrawal of Andrew Puzder as Labor Secretary, Trump has succumbed to nominating mainstream replacements that will not follow through with Trump’s change agenda. That’s part of the reason for all this anti-Russian propaganda about Russia influencing the election—to make sure Trump can’t join with them to oust ISIS” […]. TRUMP’S POOR REPLACEMENT CHOICES. Skousen: Trump’s Poor Replacement Choices — “McMaster is a closet globalist who will steer Trump into following the neocon agenda in Syria and Iran. Source: tobefree

The black square sun immersing into eastern-bloc-style housing estate facades were meant for a HDRI - but instead Photomatrix 2.4.1 synthesized a kind of hyperreal sunscape from a pair of location shots that were...